Category Archives: Africa

We stayed at the Singita Family of Lodges at Ebony Lodge and it was spectacular. We got very lucky with our animal sightings…lions (resting and feasting on a buffalo kill), leopards, elephants, rhinos, hippos, baboons, monkeys, antelopes, wildebeests, hyenas,...

Recently, we stayed at the Singita Ebony Lodge in Kruger National Park. Our plane’s wheels made contact with the ground, shooting clouds of dust as we rolled along. We stepped out onto the dirt runway, and viewed our surroundings....

Johannesburg: A visit to Nelson Mandela’s home where he lived before he passed away. People still bring these beautiful rocks with prayers and sentiments written on them and leave them outside his home. It’s very moving: Downtown Johannesburg:...

Here are some videos we captured across our travels through Botswana (Kalahari, Okavango Delta), Zimbabwe (Elephant Camp, Victoria Falls) and South Africa (Kruger/Singita, Sabi Sands) in many game parks. We loved everywhere we visited in Africa and we will...

Today we drove along the coast of Cape Town, South Africa and saw penguins, Hout Bay, and the Cape of Good Hope. We learned many interesting facts about Cape Town’s history from our amazing guide, Gavin. The...

Today, we went to a very special place called The Baphumelele School, which is a school, children’s home and HIV care center and we finally got to see our grandparents. We began our day by driving out to Khayelitsha,...

Today, we visited the Apartheid Museum, Nelson Mandela’s home and the town of Soweto. We drove to the Apartheid Museum and headed in. Apartheid was when there was racial discrimination between the whites and the blacks in South Africa....

We walked a cheetah, zipped along a zip line, swung on a gorge swing and the next day we went on an elephant ride. First, we walked Sylvester the cheetah. Sylvester has a very interesting and sad life story. He was chased...

TODAY, WE WENT TO SEE VICTORIA FALLS AND LEARNED ALL ABOUT DR. LIVINGSTONE Dr. Livingstone was the first European to discover Victoria Falls. He discovered Victoria Falls in 1855. Dr. Livingstone named Victoria Falls after Queen Victoria, but it’s Indigenous name...